[Tutor] how to strip whitespaces from a string.

[Calum Mackay]

kumar s wrote:
> Dear group, 
>  I have been practising python for some time now and
> string method 'strip' always remains an alien to me.
> whenever i try to use it, i never got what i want and
> now it still remainins an enigma. 
> 
> s = " I am learning python"
> 
> how can i remove white spaces from 's'. 
> 
> f = s.strip('\w') - wrong

Do you want to strip trailing and leading ws only? If so, then you just 
want:

	f = s.strip()

since that's what strip() does by default.

cheers,
c.